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Parabarana. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/5/1974.
Under a joint venture agreement made between North Flinders Mines and Dampier Mining Co. (a BHP Exploration subsidiary), operative over the 7 square mile SML 705 between 14/9/1973 and 14/3/1974, at least 3500 feet of additional appraisal diamond...-
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EL 272 Hamilton Creek. A regional assessment of the base metal potential of the Parabarana (to) Gunsight trend, and Callanna Beds (through) Yudnamutana sequence, northern Mount Painter Province, South Australia.
Aquitaine Australia Minerals Pty Ltd (Aquitaine) entered into a joint venture with North Flinders Mines on 21 August 1975, over an area defined by Exploration Licence 272 (ex EL 153). The area included two main prospective zones for copper deposits:...-
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Annual report on exploration activities, Mount Neill and Mount Fitton areas, EL 871, 1982.
A reassessment of Marathon Petroleum's 1979 regional stream sediment sampling programme led to the decision to resample a number of areas within EL 871. The Mt Neill and Mt Fitton areas were chosen, as a result of possible similarities with the...-
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Mount Pitt. Progress and final reports for the period 6/4/81 to 5/10/81.
As part of a regional search for economic small-scale deposits of rare earth metals in the Mount Painter district, geochemical prospecting revealed several atypically high background niobium values, in stream sediments derived from watercourses known...-
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Summary of exploration on the Gunsight uranium-copper prospect, portion (of) SML 704, South Australia, to 30/6/1973.
Surface copper carbonate mineralization occurring along a presumed shear zone was initially discovered some 4 miles southwest of the Parabarana Cu prospect by North Flinders Mines in late 1971, during a programme of detailed geochemical stream...-
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RB 98/00003 Review of the Proterozoic geology and mineral potential of the Curnamona Province in South Australia.
The Curnamona Province is exposed in the Willyama, Mt Painter and Mt Babbage Inliers, but much is obscured by younger sedimentary cover. It comprises a late Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary and metavolcanic succession (Willyama Supergroup) with some...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1998
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RB 89/00048 Review of SADME diamond drilling and company exploration at Parabarana copper prospect, northern Mount Painter Block.
During intensive exploration for an economic copper resource in the Parabarana Hill area from 1968-1975, North Flinders Mines Ltd approached SADM for direct assistance in proving the indicated deposit. SADM drilled 2 diamond drill holes, from...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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Granites and uranium mineralisation in the Mount Painter Complex, northern Flinders Ranges.
The Mount Painter basement igneous complex is dominated by granite intrusions and volcanic rocks, most of which are fractionated and have a high uranium content. Apart from Mount Painter itself, where uranium was mined more than 60 years ago, there...-
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Geological summary and appraisal of the Parabarana copper prospect and the Gunsight uranium/copper prospect, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Copper mineralisation in the vicinity of Parabarana Hill located at the extreme north-eastern end of the Flinders Ranges was worked intermittently between 1899 and 1917 for the return of small tonnages of high grade secondary ore. In the past decade...-
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/140: geochronology of the [State's] eastern basement rocks. Progress reports 1 to 22 for the period 14/9/1971 to August 1979.
More than 275 selected rock chip samples of Precambrian basement or near-basement igneous lithologies were described in detail petrographically and, if they were found to contain suitable minerals, then analysed using radiometric methods, the aim...-
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Freeling Heights - Moolowatana - Prospect Hill area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 25/3/1971 to 24/3/1972.
Continuing detailed investigations of various copper prospects in the far northern Flinders Ranges, principally in the vicinity of Mount Fitton, were pursued by conducting surface geological mapping, IP and magnetic surveys, and rock chip and stream...-
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Carthew area. Early results of field assessment (with mineralogical appendix) Jan., 1973.
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 2010/00020 Definition of the Mesoproterozoic Ninnerie Supersuite, Curnamona Province, South Australia.
The Curnamona Province crustal block was host to widespread late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic magmatic activity, with several periods of granite emplacement on record as having occurred during the Mesoproterozoic. Granitic and volcanic...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2011
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CALLABONNA 1:250 000 geological map released.
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SML 705, Parabarana copper prospect. Final report.
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Yudnamutana - Mount Painter area. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1971 to 23/6/1972.
Exploration for possible stratiform massive base metal sulphide deposits in the area of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field, located 12 km north-west of Mount Painter, was designed to follow up promising copper geochemical anomalies and related...-
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Structural geology and economic assessment of the Parabarana prospect, northern Flinders Ranges, SA.
Detailed geological mapping at the Parabarana Cu prospect, and between Parabarana and the Gunsight Cu/U prospect of North Flinders Mines Ltd in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia, has been completed.A major ENE trending fault, the...-
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Yudnamutana Hill. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/1980 to 15/2/1995.
Base metal and gold exploration undertaken over a lengthy period since 1980 in the Yudnamutana Hill area, 20 km north-west of Arkaroola, has comprised detailed geological mapping of major basement and cover stratigraphic units and known mineral...-
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Parabarana copper prospect. Report on detailed mapping carried out in April-May 1972, and a reviewed geological interpretation of exploratory work done over the period 19/5/1969 to August 1972.
In May of 1969 the mineralized Parabarana area was secured by North Flinders Mines Ltd, and during the last three years, it has been the subject of a comprehensive exploration programme. Exploration methods have included: 1. A stream sediment survey...-
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Mount Adams. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to 18/2/1971.
TARGET: Copper and uranium in Adelaidean sediments and Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks within a small licence area located 11 miles north-east of Mount Painter. EXPLORATION: A low-level helicopter-borne radiometric survey (using a nominal 1/10th mile...-
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